Category: Writing

18. When making an argument, it is important to consider your audience because the word argument assumes controversy (true, false).
19. Acknowledging differing viewpoints tends to weaken the integrity of your position (true, false).
20. A comma punctuates the end of a complete sentence (true or false).
Question 18: When making an argument, it’s important to consider your audience because the word fare. A. True B. False
Question 19: Acknowledging differing viewpoints tends to weaken the integrity of your position. A. True B. False
Question 20: A comma punctuates the end of a complete sentence. A. True B. False

4 different kinds of hooks about Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking that most people do not know – quote your source (Chapters 3,4&5). Author: Malcolm Gladwell
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1- An interesting statistic/fact about Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking that most people do not know – quote your source (Chapters 3,4&5). Author: Malcolm Gladwell
2- A famous quote that may apply to Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking-  the quote in quotation marks (author of the quote) (chapters 3,4&5). Author: Malcolm Gladwell
3- An important question that we might ask about Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking [do not ask about intuitive thinking or thin-slicing as the reader may not know what this is] (chapters 3,4&5). Author: Malcolm Gladwell
4- A bit of wisdom / old saying you know that is suggested by Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking It can come from the USA or your country. ( chapters 3,4&5). Author: Malcolm Gladwell

Question
You are in a public speaking class and watch one of your peer’s video speeches. You realize the student is giving a speech you’ve seen before on YouTube; a student from a different university recorded themselves and uploaded it. Your classmate is repeating the speech, but cites where all the information in the speech came from. Include the following in your post:
?      Is your classmate being unethical?
?      Which ethical tenets from the reading apply to this situation?
?      What are you going to do about this situation? Will you tell anyone? Why or why not?

Quick Breads
After reading Chapter 10 of the textbook, students will define the following baking terms:
Terms for Review:
Pour batter
Drop batter
Tunneling
Muffin method
Creaming method
Biscuit method
?      If you made a batch of muffins that came out of the oven with strange, knobby shapes, what would you expect to be the reason?
?      What is the most important difference between the biscuit method and the muffin method?

Chapter 3 begins with a scene of children playing in the sunshine. It says The air was drowsy with the murmur of bees and helicopters.” Is this sentence beautiful, funny, ironic, or strange? What effect does it have on the reader?

Question 1 (10 points)
In which situation would you be more likely to use the Rogerian model than the Toulmin model?
Question 1 options:
Your company is under financial strain so each department must propose a potential solution. You analyze the solutions to determine the best approach, even if it means some departments might face cuts. To increase departmental investment in the solution you choose, you aim to bring everyone together through a shared value or goal.
Your department at work wants to reduce the number of employees. Fearing mass layoffs, you set up a petition for employees to sign in an attempt to remove the CEO with a vote of no confidence.
Your friend believes the earth is flat so you aim to convince him that the earth is round.
Your new job involves a lengthy commute. You call a family meeting in hopes to convince everyone that buying a hybrid car will save money.
Question 2 (10 points)
In what field of study was the “inventor” of the Rogerian model?
Question 2 options:
Rhetoric
Humanistic Psychology
Classical Argumentation
Speech and Debate
Question 3 (10 points)
Saved
Which of the following would best depict the structure of a Rogerian argument?
Question 3 options:
Introduction, Background, Refutation of Opposition, Statement of Claim, Substantiation of Claim, Rebuttal of Opposition, Conclusion
Introduction, Background, Show Understanding of Opposition, Assert Your Position, Demonstrate Common Ground, Conclusion
Introduction, Background, Statement of Claim, Supporting Grounds, Warrant, Qualifier, Conclusion
Introduction, Background, Your Position, Opponent’s Position, Refutation of Opponent, Conclusion
Question 4 (10 points)
What might one do in an analysis section of a Rogerian argument?
Question 4 options:
Explore commonalities between multiple perspectives.
Refute the opposition.
Rebut the counterclaims.
Qualify the claim.
Question 5 (10 points)
A salesperson is at the door.  Which sentence might you hear if the salesperson is using a Rogerian approach?
Question 5 options:
If you don’t use my service, your carpet will stay dirty.
Think of how much money you’ll save by hiring me rather than buying all new carpet.
Your neighbor purchased my best carpet cleaning service.
Since you agree your carpet is dirty, you might find value in my carpet cleaning service.

Student’s Doco Name: Date: “The Curriculum” and “The Syllabus” Rewriting Figurative Language Objective: Writing new examples of figurative language Activity Choose five examples of figurative language (similes, metaphors, personification, or hyperbole) from this section to rewrite using a different literary device. Try to make a comparison as effective or more effective than the original. Use the chart provided. Write the original example, your rewritten version (including what device it), and an explanation of why you think that new uses device is effective. We have provided an example for you. REWRITING FIGURATIVE LANGUAGE CHART Original Example New Version Explanation of Comparison 1. “For many of us, the curtain had For many of us, the future raced This simile expresses more anxiety just come down on childhood.” forward, faster and faster, like a about the passing of time. The im- smoking and screaming locomotive agery of smoke and the scream of a (simile). locomotive emphasize how fast and unstoppable time is. 2 . ” He is a small man who the little do laughed. this is any hyperbole takes small steps , as if a to see such fun”. s where the dag has been strong wind could, at any time, hyperbole. given such qualities it whisk him up into the clouds does not have . Hyperbole 3 . for many of us , the Laughter is compostlion Laughter is: compound curtain has just come down Music A metaphor to music. Musicis the on childhood” Metaphors feelings and con off night fe 4 . ” He could be research . ” She his dangerous as Is a smile which compares the Ag human textbook” a tiger when sad a with a tiger . It means just as simile Uger gets fierce, sodoes She Metaphors when She is sad . 5 . ” In his graduation day I’m extremely hungry tbat This is an hyperbole robe , he looks likea cross Showing hour some one is between a biblical Prophet capable of doing when hang and a christmas elf” It means he can eat some simile 95 a hove due to anger.

Chapter Eight 273 Assignment 8-1 Name 1. Match the process at the right being demonstrated with the transcriptions. Each item has only one correct answer. a. lake – /jerk/ g. pitch – /PIS/ A. fronting b. with /wit/ h. dish – /dis/ B. stopping c. very – /ben/ i. through – /tru/ C. deaffrication d. camp -> /taemp/ j. shop – /zap/ D. prevocalic voicing e. chews – /Suz/ k. dropped – /dwapt/ E. gliding f. tree – /dri/ 1. song – /san/ 2. Match the process at the right being demonstrated with the transcriptions. Each item has only one correct answer. a. tickle -> /dik]/ g. case -> /teIs/ A. labial assimilation b. feed – /fit/ h. corn /arcy/ B. alveolar assimilation c. drop – /daat/ i. was – /WAS/ C. velar assimilation d. bath – /baef/ j. camp – /paemp/ D. prevocalic voicing e. box – /gaks/ k. bring – /gam/ E. devoicing f. pad – /paeb/ 1. share -> /381/ 3. For each of the following words, apply the phonological process given, and transcribe the resulting production. Example: lean final consonant deletion i/ a. cost prevocalic voicing b. flag final consonant deletion c. tacky velar assimilation d. spurt cluster reduction e. wish fronting f. than alveolar assimilation g. glued gliding h. cage devoicing i. other stopping j. chocolate weak syllable deletion k. badge deaffrication 1. tough labial assimilation

Use the script to answer the question. LIZ: (suddenly) Julian! We have to turn around. I think I left the oven on at the house! JULIAN: What! I thought you turned it off before we left. LIZ: I thought I did, too, but I’m not sure. JULIAN: (frustrated) We are nearly 10 miles away at this point. We can’t just turn around. Can you call Michelle and see if she can use her spare key to check for us? LIZ: Michelle is visiting her sister in Michigan this weekend, remember? JULIAN: What about Carlos? Doesn’t he have a spare key? LIZ: (with a sigh of relief) You’re right! I’m going to call him right now. In one to two sentences, analyze how the stage directions would impact the way actors perform this scene. Example Template: In the playscript above, the stage direction (give the character’s name and a brief summary of the line) would impact the way the actor performs that line (say how it would impact the actor’s performance). Then, explain why.

Memento Mori
By Jonathan Nolan
“What like a bullet can undeceive!” —Herman Melville
Your wife always used to say you’d be late for your own funeral. Remember that? Her little joke because you were such a slob—always late, always forgetting stuff, even before the incident.
Right about now you’re probably wondering if you were late for hers.
You were there, you can be sure of that. That’s what the picture’s for—the one tacked to the wall by the door. It’s not customary to take pictures at a funeral, but somebody, your doctors, I guess, knew you wouldn’t remember. They had it blown up nice and big and stuck it right there, next to the door, so you couldn’t help but see it every time you got up to find out where she was.
The guy in the picture, the one with the flowers? That’s you. And what are you doing? You’re reading the headstone, trying to figure out who’s funeral you’re at, same as you’re reading it now, trying to figure why someone stuck that picture next to your door. But why bother reading something that you won’t remember?
She’s gone, gone for good, and you must be hurting right now, hearing the news. Believe me, I know how you feel. You’re probably a wreck. But give it five minutes, maybe ten. Maybe you can even go a whole half hour before you forget.
But you will forget—I guarantee it. A few more minutes and you’ll be heading for the door, looking for her all over again, breaking down when you find the picture. How many times do you have to hear the news before some other part of your body, other than that busted brain of yours, starts to remember?
Never-ending grief, never-ending anger. Useless without direction. Maybe you can’t understand what’s happened. Can’t say I really understand, either. Backwards amnesia. That’s what the sign says. CRS disease. Your guess is as good as mine.
Maybe you can’t understand what happened to you. But you do remember what happened to HER, don’t you? The doctors don’t want to talk about it. They won’t answer my questions. They don’t think it’s right for a man in your condition to hear about those things. But you remember enough, don’t you? You remember his face.
This is why I’m writing to you. Futile, maybe. I don’t know how many times you’ll have to read this before you listen to me. I don’t even know how long you’ve been locked up in this room already. Neither do you. But your advantage in forgetting is that you’ll forget to write yourself off as a lost cause.
Sooner or later you’ll want to do something about it. And when you do, you’ll just have to trust me, because I’m the only one who can help you.
EARL OPENS ONE EYE after another to a stretch of white ceiling tiles interrupted by a hand-printed sign taped right above his head, large enough for him to read from the bed. An alarm clock is ringing somewhere. He reads the sign, blinks, reads it again, then takes a look at the room.
It’s a white room, overwhelmingly white, from the walls and the curtains to the institutional furniture and the bedspread. The alarm clock is ringing from the white desk under the window with the white curtains. At this point Earl probably notices that he is lying on top of his white comforter. He is already wearing a dressing gown and slippers.
He lies back and reads the sign taped to the ceiling again. It says, in crude block capitals, THIS IS YOUR ROOM. THIS IS A ROOM IN A HOSPITAL. THIS IS WHERE YOU LIVE NOW.
“Memento Mori” by Jonathan Nolan **ANSWER ALL PARTS OF EACH QUESTION! Some have several parts. They can be tricky! 1. Who is the first person speaker in the story? How is that person connected to Earl? 2. The last sentence in Paragraph Ten reads, in part, “I’m the only one who can help you.” What sort of hel is being suggested here? 3. Where does Earl wake up? What kind of place is this? Why is he there? 4. What is Earl’s physical injury, and what proof is there of that injury? 5. Toward the end of the second long italicized section, the narrator relates, “The last thing you remember. His face. His face and your wife, looking to you for help.” Explain what this refers to and how it might affect Earl, especially given his circumstances.. 6. Earl’s alarm clock goes off at 3:20 am. There are keys taped to the back of his hand, a roll of hundred dollar bills in his jacket, and a letter in a sealed envelope. Explain briefly what’s going on in this scene? Notice that the scene ends with Earl going back to bed in spite of the ominous warning sign taped to the ceiling above his head. Why do you think he does that? 7. In the third italicized section the following sentence appears: “Lists are the only way out of this mess.” What is the point of lists in our lives? Explain whether or not lists are Earl’s only way out. B. Explain the use of tattooing and of the bell as methods employed by Earl to cope with his problems. 9. The end of the second-to-last italicized section reads, “I’ll be gone in a moment. I’ll put down the pen, close my eyes, and then you can read this through if you want.” What kind of existence is this and how would this sort of existence affect the psychological and physical self?